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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Does anyone even care about any of the schools ranked outside the Top 25?[/quote]

Yes.  And is there a sudden invisible cutoff between 25 and 26?  [/quote]

I really think a good consistent list of top schools is to look at is how College Confidential organizes it.  There are the ivies in one category, top universities in another, and then top liberal arts colleges. This is consistent and is not ranked.

Ivies:
Brown
Columbia
Cornell
Dartmouth
Harvard
Penn
Princeton
Yale

Top universities:
Berkekely
UCLA
Cal Tech
Carnegie Mellon
Chicago
Duke
Emory
Georgetown
Hopkins
MIT
Michigan
Chapel Hill
Northwestern
Notre Dame
Rice
Stanford
Tulane
UVA
Vanderbilt
Wash U

Top Liberal Arts Colleges:
Amherst
Barnard
Bates
Bowdoin
Bryn Mayr
Carleton
Claremont
Colby
Colgate
Davidson
Grinnell
Hamilton
Harvey Mudd
Haverford
Kenyon
Macalester
Middlebury
Mount Holyoke
Oberlin
Pomona
Reed
Smith
Swarthmore
Trinity
Vassar
Washington & Lee
Wellesley
Wesleyan
Whitman
Williams

All other schools in one separate batch alphabetically.

Simple, clean. [/quote]

Huh? The Ivies are not necessarily better than other top schools.[/quote]

Nobody is saying that. It is just a way to organize top schools. They are all top schools, just not ranked. Ivy League is what it is. [/quote]

It’s an athletic league. That’s what it is. Like the Big Ten. It was established in 1954, so the concept isn’t even that old.[/quote]

You’re the same person who thirty years ago corrected everyone who said they were going to Xerox something by pointing out the copy machine wasn’t a Xerox and therefore they were not Xeroxing it. Technically correct but completely insufferable. [/quote]

This is very different.

The Ivy League thing perpetuates this stupid idea that those schools are somehow better than non-Ivies, which results in kids applying to Ivy League schools in droves, sometimes turning down offers from other schools to attend them because “how can I turn down an Ivy League school?”

It’s an insidious and harmful misperception.[/quote]

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